Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen

It's not all about the hair when it comes to rock 'n' roll and music festivals, but the 'do-or-die presentation has been an essential part of the act even before the show with the catchy...

The Hangout Festival isn't all about the headlining acts such as Kings of Leon and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

The pride of Gainesville, Florida, Petty had sort of the home-field advantage Saturday night on the Hangout Stage, playing just one state over and practically a...

"This is the best American crowd we've seen in a long, long time."

It only took Kings of Leon frontman and lead singer Caleb Followill 50 minutes to reach that conclusion Friday night at the Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Getting almost everyone's undivided attention as...

Delta Rae might sound like the down-home name of a backwoods country singer but it's really just Greek to Brittany Holljes.

"I think there are a lot of 'Delta' bands out there, too, so we kind of get that ... people get confused," said Holljes, the whip-smart singer...

Professionally known as Lissie, Elisabeth Corrin Maurus identifies with another one-word pop-culture phenomenon not named Madonna, Beyonce or Pink.

The rock-pop singer-songwriter who was raised in the Midwest still has googly eyes for Annie, the spunky fictional character she played as a precocious 10-year-old at Circa '21...

Bruce Springsteen and Mark Knopfler have influenced tons of artists over the years, but a sweet-sounding soprano who's co-founder of the charming Canadian trinity known as the Wailin' Jennys wouldn't be the first to come to mind.

Ruth Moody, who possibly possesses the prettiest voice...

Ryan Bingham might look, act and talk like a cowboy, and maybe that's where his crazy heart ultimately lies. But there's more to the singer-songwriter's backstory than the scratchy voice he can raise to eardrum-splitting levels and the hardscrabble past that's impossible to forget.

The 32-year-old musician with a...

Jason Isbell doesn't mince words while discussing his battle with the bottle.

"Man, I'm an alcoholic," the Alabama singer-songwriter said of his addiction that involved a dangerously close friendship with Mr. Jack Daniel's. "So I drank all the time. I used to think I didn't drink in the...

Steve Earle was celebrating in Denver on Saturday night, and it had nothing to do with the Mile-High puff daddies hanging out near Colfax Avenue just two miles to the west.

No, the alt-country outlaw was enjoying his role in Record Store Day on the 25th anniversary of...

Paula Cole is a piano-playing poet and provocateur, a loving daughter and mother, a Grammy winner and seven-time nominee, a dramatic voice of affliction and affection, a risk-taker in a risky business.

These days, though, she is mostly a fighter. On and off four major labels over a...

Kacey Musgraves doesn't need a sign from above to indicate whether she's destined for greatness. If country music's latest next big thing has any doubts, there are so many outside forces willing to make it happen.

If that's not enough, Nashville's determined and down-to-earth bundle of energy can...

One of the joys about covering music in my spare time is hearing a singer-songwriter or band for the first time, not having any preconceived notions or prior knowledge of their work. With mounds of sounds stacking up, for whatever reason you dig deep to find the one CD that...

How's this for a delicious recipe: Take equal parts of Dolly Parton and Paula Deen, then stir in a dash of Sandra Lee, a smidgen of Reba McEntire and just a pinch of Martha Stewart.

The piece de resistance? A tasty treat called Kimberly's Simply Southern, a cooking/travel/adventure...

A Grammy Award-winning, hit-making machine, Lady Antebellum is moving full-speed ahead to deliver its next record before singer Hillary Scott delivers her first baby. But no matter how long they stay on track, this Nashville trio will avoid covering the same ground.

The country group known for lush harmonies...

Don't tell Holly Williams that the road is a lonesome place. To begin 2013, there's nowhere else she'd rather be.

Of course, it took a while for the thoughtful singer-songwriter, a breath of fresh Americana heir within country music's royal dynasty, to get back there. And while there...

Carrie Rodriguez just might be the hardest-working woman in American roots music. The Austin, Texas-born-and-raised singer-songwriter plays the fiddle, but doesn't fiddle around.

After finally taking a brief respite from the road over the holidays, when she was able to enjoy two of her favorite things -- cooking...

If anyone who's listened to Trampled by Turtles' most recent album wondered whether they were finally slowing down, fear not. As is their style, the Minnesota quintet quickly fingerpicked up the pace during the second of two nights at the Ogden Theatre in Denver on January 11.

Oh,...

Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland weren't even born when Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston teamed up for the Motown hit single "It Takes Two" in 1965. Two years later, they also missed out when Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty costarred in Bonnie and Clyde, the Academy Award-nominated film...

The invitations were sent out months ago. Did you RSVP?

While a Denver bash to celebrate a phenomenal, breakout year was thrown by a most promising host, some of us waited until the final day of 2012 to get the party started. In the year of the Lumineers, did...

The Colorado concert calendar was filled with memorable shows in 2012, though the opportunity to go out of state for the Austin City Limits Music Festival in October, then head to Las Vegas this month to see the long-awaited comebacks of two of country's hottest stars was too good to...